Chronicles
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Serbia in the Orient
by Sonja Biserko
Though not specifically thematic writings, the
authorial pieces collected in this book make up a rounded whole
reflecting the author's attempt to get to the very core of the Balkan
and primarily the Serbian catastrophe at the end of the 20th century.
This plunge into a dark era of Serbia's modern history that resulted in
an unprecedented human and material devastation, leads Sonja Biserko to
rational explanations a reader will find in this book. In these
explanations the reader will recognize not only a committed chronicler
of wasted times, but also a serious interpreter of the causes behind the
pathology that unavoidably led the Serbian society to (self) destructive
consequences.
Presented in a chronological order - from the early
1990s to the beginning of the new century - the collected articles
provide the right dimension to the level-headed analysis of the
developments the outcome of which was, as a rule, predictable and, also
as a rule, adverse. Such lucid anticipation of the cause-consequence
relationship and the overtness by which this anticipation is told in
public made Sonja Biserko a kind of loner at domestic scene. However,
her nonconformism is a part of her personal integrity and courage.
This was how the editor of "Serbia in the Orient,"
Seska Stanojlovic, introduced the book to the readership.
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